Engineering ethics framework

A. Moser Principa Ecologica Eco-Principles as a Conceptual Framework for a New Ethics in Science and Technology , Science and Engineering Ethics 1 1994, p. 241. 

Table 7.1 summarizes the three intellectual traditions that provide a contextual framework for understanding engineering, the engineer, and engineering ethics. This framework can now be used to revisit the three controversies introduced above. 

Engineering problem solving within an ethical framework, legul responsibilities, and professional registration are developed. Ethics case studies and the content of the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) and Professional Engineering (PE) examinations are included. 

Chapter 3 gives a more complete description of Canada s Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer and adds a new section on the framework of engineering ethics. The chapter includes the Code of Ethics of the National Society of Professional Engineers in its entirety and adds six new case studies from NSPE s Board of Ethical Review. 

In ethical committees and public debates the emphasis is on the so-called extrinsic concerns the risks for human health, for animals and for the environment. Most methods of risk analysis look only at the consequences and the effects of genetic engineering within the framework of a utilitarian ethics (weighing costs and benefits). 

Figure 4-6 Framework of Lean Engineering Education and ethics competency.

Following what we consider a general trend in the engineering world, professional associations are quite acquainted with the need to provide ethical assessment to practicing engineers, but mostly in the field of micro-ethics. Macro ethics, the general conception beyond the framework of a project or the strictly professional commitment is not envisioned. However these associations are aware of the importance of the formation in those subjects for future graduates. 

In each of these circumstances, engineers apply their own moral standards, mindful of the legal requirements, using their personal code of ethics to make the decisioa To help in the development of a personal code of ethics that will provide a framework for making these decisions, we begin by identifying the three types of reasons for ethical behavior ... 

I have presented a framework of leadership based on the Buddhist view of ethical development. The framework consisted of Kemavuthanon and Duberley s (2009) leadership model and the practice of the six virtues of the Mahdydna tradition of Buddhism. Through a case scenario, I demonstrated how a model of engineering... 

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